Sixty years ago, the world was locked in a 13-day crisis between the USA and Soviet Union. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the little-known details about how the world came within a whisker of a global nuclear war.AI-powered
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The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Happened on the First Day?
Sheldon stern: President kennedy met with a group of 15 men to discuss the crisis in cuba. He says they discussed three courses of action, including air strikes and an invasion. The meeting was recorded by Kennedy using his secret taping system. Now we know that most American military forces were ordered to go on defcon three.
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